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Other things you can do to reduce or prevent exercise-induced asthma

Avoid outdoors exercising on days when it’s cold or ice, and cold air is drier and cools and dries the lining of the airways, acting as a stimulus for the release of bronchoconstrictor activity of chemical mediators.

Try breathing through your nose because the nasal passages and humidify the air warmed, that this way is less stressful for the airways.

Before starting exercise, warm up with short bouts of exercise, as this can reduce asthma following a period of more intense and prolonged exercise. The explanation for this phenomenon is unclear, but two factors may play a role: 1) Short intervals of exercise can improve lung function. 2) While the warming itself does not cause asthma attacks, may reduce the ability of the cells of the airways to release chemical mediators that cause asthma symptoms.

If exercise is poorly tolerated running, swimming should be tested, as the moist air environment causes less drying pools in the lining of the airways. You can also try a sport intermittent type (eg, tennis, bowling …) or work out in gyms or indoor (gym, aerobics, paddle, etc.)..

It is preferable to run short distances and exercise speed and sprint exercises in the background, because the speed drills require only a few breaths, so there is less cooling and drying of the airways.

Avoid exercising the days pollen is heavy if you are allergic to pollens from grasses or other plants, or days you have a lot of pollution. With exercise, you breathe a lot of pollen / air pollution. These substances aggravate asthma, especially in patients more prone and unstable.

The better physical shape need to breathe with less intensity, thus reducing the stimuli that could trigger asthma attacks.

The most important thing is to keep asthma under control the disease. When asthma is well controlled, asthma attacks caused by exercise greatly diminish (or disappear).

credit to: Dr. Joaquín Muñiz Girón, Dr. Nicola Wilson

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